Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-11-10
Jwvesoay Eves,we. NOVEMBER 10. 1857.
OHrO.S KEYNOTE FOR 1855.

-
Ohio has sounded the keynote for the
pees,dential campaign OF 1858. Let the
nuevumps and 'tenderfoot" republicans
make q note of it. II we are to have . re-
publican national victory next year let it -
u,derstood new that it will be gained in
pcscisely the same way that our Ohio vic
tpry has been gained this yearly
stzaight our-and-Out, heroic fight for the
najn&enauce and vindication Of the great
urinciples which lie at the very foundation
Of Q republican and popular government
Ohio has lifted up her voice and cast her
~, for frse. pure, honest elections-in the
North and in the Southland republican
plurality over the highest vote OF four op-
pesing parties, Of more than $4,000, gives
meat force to the keynote which she has
eiysu for the great national battle which
has already begun.
Another great and NEST significant fact
Siv,s force to hes utterance: namely. the
f.ct tai Ohio's republican legislature and
hsr army Of individual republicans. have
taken in hand the boodlers. the bulldozers
and The ballot-box suffers whose rank par
tispu political offsuses smelled to heaven
and given the state bad name throughout
the land, and throttIed and trodden them
under foot. The great, supremely impor-
tant republican and democratic principle
represented in free. pure, honest ballot.
he's been vindicated and grandly illustrated
in Ohio. We have had an absolutely free
election. and the ballots cast on Tuesday.
November sth. have been honestly counted.
And q q result of tkis we have had
grand republican victory. in which great
. rinciples have gloriously triumphed.
Now, let it be further understood, that If
precisely the same kind of a battle which
has been fought in Ohio by Governor For
.ker. Senator Sherman. Major Mckinley,
Major Buttsrworth. and others-had been
fought in New York, that state could have
hsen carried by the republicans, in spite of
al The hostile influence exerted by the DEM |
oeratic administration. This kind Of q
hxht must be fought, with nerve, courage
and enthusiasm. next year, not only in
Ohio, or in New York. but in every state in
this union, to ensure victory to the repub-
lcsn cause. Such . fight will give US the
presidency in 1855 and no other kind of
fight will.
With white men land democrats at that
opouly disfranchissd in MARYLAND and
great army of black men who do net dare to
70 to the polls in at least half dozen states
of the south, the supreme question to be
decided. before all others, is mhether the
roters of America shall hare the prirtie9s
Of voting as they please, at all elections, IN
oil portions of the United States :
This is not . question of party politics
1t Is question OF moral ana
right. and the republi-
can party. in accepting this issue and I'D
fshting under the banner of free ballot.
Is acting and working and striking in be-
half of the highest political privilege, be-
longing By right to every voter in every
party in the land. This is not In the line
of u.rty politics. 1t is not solely in the in
hsrsst Of the republicans. But 1t is in the
Infsrest OF q free government-of and
hon and by the people. For, until We
h.v, q free ballot and IN honest count, in
lGarylapd and Mississippi. and in New
York. too, as well as in Ohio. men OF no ,
prohibitionists nor labor
party men-have any power or resource in ,
he ballot box.
In Ohio and Michigan the prohibitionlsts
ave claimed that, in the canvasses for =
,rohibltory constitutional amendment, they
vers counted out Had they united with I
hs republicans in putting down the DULL
,oasr. and fraudulent counters, they might
AVE rejoiced over different result. ,
Another significant tact has forced :
tseif to the frent in the ONO o
,attle that has just been fought: namely !
hat whoever shall be nominated for the r
,rosidency or the vice presidency, next 7
car, our gallant Ohio leader. Governor Jo- a
eph Bsnson Feraker, should make per- v
mai canvass of the country. He is the
IN Who has proved. conspacaously. that
: - ~ enur,ss Of his cpuvictio0s; that 4